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Looks like Apple set the sticky-bit on/. Even though you can create a new file in/, you can't edit any of the important files there nor can you modify any of the files in/etc w/o sudo/su'ing first. (My experience is only w/ 10.3.)
Are you running the newest version? 2.60 is much improved over previous versions.
If you are running 2.60, have you trained and enabled the bayesian filters? By default you need to feed SpamAssassin about 300 spam and 300 ham (non-spam) messages for it to learn the difference. It will auto-train itself over time but it only auot-learns on messages that are very obviously (to it) spam or ham.
If you normally only get email from a select list of people then you may want to lower your threshold. For people you routinely recieve email from, SpamAssassin will remember that they usually don't send you spam so if you occasionally get something with a high score from them it will automatically lower it a bit. So, you can lower your threshold and still not get any false positives.
I have my required_hits set to 3 and the only false positives I've seen (since switching to 2.60) have been mailing lists (one was from LinuxWorld, the other from another news site) and not person-to-person email. I recieve 50-60 spam messages a day and only one or two a week gets into my inbox.
I do some stuff to keep SpamAssasin's bayesian filters well trained. Every couple weeks I will go in to my spam folder and quickly page through it. If I see a spam that the bayesian filters gave a low score (less than 90% sure it is spam) I will pipe it (I use pine) to sa-learn to train the bayesian filters (unless it was autotrained).
Dan was also behind one of the greatest games of all time, Command HQ. It is definitely an ancestor of modern RTS games.
Oddly enough I had a hankering for classic games this past weekend and downloaded Command HQ (abandonware) and played a few games of it on Sunday. (I bought this game back in its prime and I still have the manuals, but the media is missing.) If only I could play it over the Internet...
I agree completely. Here's how the equation stacks up to me...
1. - believe something is completely acceptable - do it = reasons: normal = common examples: breathing, eating
2. - believe something is bad/wrong - do it anyways - don't think is a big deal = reasons: lazy = common examples: speeding, eating too much
3. - believe something is bad/wrong - do it anyways - think it's a big deal = reasons: weak-willed = "common" examples: adultery, theft
For me, porn sits somewhere between #1 and #2. (Actually, almost everything is between #1 and #2.) Most of us engaged these type of acts every day. How often do we speed or gossip or something like that? We know it is somewhat "wrong" but to us it is a minor transgression, no big deal.
On the other hand, I think we all try to avoid #3. Most of us see things like adultry or theft to be a big deal. For some people porn fits in #3. For those people who believe porn is immoral and that it is a big deal and still look at it... that sucks. I don't know what to say... shame on them.
(On a side note, sharing/downloading copyrighted mp3s is between #1 and #2 for me... and most people. The (RI|MP)AA needs to realize that we don't see it as a #3 and stop trying to treat it that way.)
First, as Brian says, set up a cheap PC running Linux. I use an old K62-300 with 128megs of RAM. (I use it for more than just mail, it also is my file and web server.)
Then, instead of doing the whole DNS thing and running your own mail server, simply use fetchmail to pull your email down from your ISP.
Next, use procmail and spamassassin to filter and file your email.
Lastly, use imapd if you'd like to use some crappy Windows-based mail reader like Outlook Express or what-not.
Also, if you set up your DSL/cablemodem-router to forward port 22 to your Linux box you'll be able to ssh into it and read your email from anywhere in the road (assuming you can get an ssh client.)
I'm still reading. Despite my low user number, I've only been reading/. for a bit over four years. By the time user accounts appeared, however, I was hooked.
I have written discussion board software. I made it so that a user can modify their posting. Other users can see that it was modified and can view the older versions if they wish. So you can change your viewpoint, but anybody that clicks on the little "History" link can see what you said originally.
Wisenut continues to spider content that I ask not to be spidered (using my robots.txt). In fact, I have over 200 hits to my site from wisenut.com's spider but NONE of them are to my robots.txt.
I saw it also. I was driving on 490 in Rochester, NY, when I saw a yellow-orange streak to the south about 10-15 degrees above the horizon. I dismissed the sighting as a very strange reflection or my imagination because I saw it out of the corner of my eye and couldn't be sure what I saw. But now I know what it was... cool.
I think it is very interesting to note that of the top 40 supercomputers, there are seven with less than 400 processors and every single one of them is located outside the United States (six in Japan, one in France).
Starting around 6th grade, kids that don't want to be in school should be allowed to leave so that those who want to be there won't be held back. If a student is a disruption to the learning environment, kick 'em out. If the losers and idiots weren't in the schools, they (the schools) would be great.
We all know Americans can teach... we have some of the best Universities in the world. It is just that after High School all the losers are weeded out. Weed 'em out earlier is what I think we should do.
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I believe the Cisco routers used by Vonage utilize SIP and not H.323.
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According to Cisco:
"Cisco ATA 18x series products are only vulnerable when configured for H.323. They are not vulnerable when configured for SIP."
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-2
Five digits... and you're bragging.
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/comm_data.h tml
Looks like Apple set the sticky-bit on /. Even though you can create a new file in /, you can't edit any of the important files there nor can you modify any of the files in /etc w/o sudo/su'ing first. (My experience is only w/ 10.3.)
Are you running the newest version? 2.60 is much improved over previous versions.
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If you are running 2.60, have you trained and enabled the bayesian filters? By default you need to feed SpamAssassin about 300 spam and 300 ham (non-spam) messages for it to learn the difference. It will auto-train itself over time but it only auot-learns on messages that are very obviously (to it) spam or ham.
If you normally only get email from a select list of people then you may want to lower your threshold. For people you routinely recieve email from, SpamAssassin will remember that they usually don't send you spam so if you occasionally get something with a high score from them it will automatically lower it a bit. So, you can lower your threshold and still not get any false positives.
I have my required_hits set to 3 and the only false positives I've seen (since switching to 2.60) have been mailing lists (one was from LinuxWorld, the other from another news site) and not person-to-person email. I recieve 50-60 spam messages a day and only one or two a week gets into my inbox.
spam cathing - >99%
false positives (normal email) - 0%
false positives (mailing lists) -
I do some stuff to keep SpamAssasin's bayesian filters well trained. Every couple weeks I will go in to my spam folder and quickly page through it. If I see a spam that the bayesian filters gave a low score (less than 90% sure it is spam) I will pipe it (I use pine) to sa-learn to train the bayesian filters (unless it was autotrained).
Thank you... that "free energy" >100% efficiency crap always pisses me off.
How many times did Peter Jennings refer to F-17's last night? My guess is somewhere around 5-10. It is F-117 you dolt!
Sersiouly, though, Peter is pretty cool... for a Canadian.
Dan was also behind one of the greatest games of all time, Command HQ. It is definitely an ancestor of modern RTS games.
Oddly enough I had a hankering for classic games this past weekend and downloaded Command HQ (abandonware) and played a few games of it on Sunday. (I bought this game back in its prime and I still have the manuals, but the media is missing.) If only I could play it over the Internet...
I agree completely. Here's how the equation stacks up to me...
1.
- believe something is completely acceptable
- do it
= reasons: normal
= common examples: breathing, eating
2.
- believe something is bad/wrong
- do it anyways
- don't think is a big deal
= reasons: lazy
= common examples: speeding, eating too much
3.
- believe something is bad/wrong
- do it anyways
- think it's a big deal
= reasons: weak-willed
= "common" examples: adultery, theft
For me, porn sits somewhere between #1 and #2. (Actually, almost everything is between #1 and #2.) Most of us engaged these type of acts every day. How often do we speed or gossip or something like that? We know it is somewhat "wrong" but to us it is a minor transgression, no big deal.
On the other hand, I think we all try to avoid #3. Most of us see things like adultry or theft to be a big deal. For some people porn fits in #3. For those people who believe porn is immoral and that it is a big deal and still look at it... that sucks. I don't know what to say... shame on them.
(On a side note, sharing/downloading copyrighted mp3s is between #1 and #2 for me... and most people. The (RI|MP)AA needs to realize that we don't see it as a #3 and stop trying to treat it that way.)
CitibankOnline.com works fine with Mozilla 1.x.
Those skits are called "Nick Burns: Your Company's Computer Guy" or something very close to that. There are about four of them. They are hilarious.
Linux is not a generic term. It isn't close. It never has been close and it never will be.
You clearly don't understand what is meant by a generic term.
There is an easier way to do this.
First, as Brian says, set up a cheap PC running Linux. I use an old K62-300 with 128megs of RAM. (I use it for more than just mail, it also is my file and web server.)
Then, instead of doing the whole DNS thing and running your own mail server, simply use fetchmail to pull your email down from your ISP.
Next, use procmail and spamassassin to filter and file your email.
Lastly, use imapd if you'd like to use some crappy Windows-based mail reader like Outlook Express or what-not.
Also, if you set up your DSL/cablemodem-router to forward port 22 to your Linux box you'll be able to ssh into it and read your email from anywhere in the road (assuming you can get an ssh client.)
I'm still reading. Despite my low user number, I've only been reading /. for a bit over four years. By the time user accounts appeared, however, I was hooked.
Symantec AntiVirus Command Line Scanner 1.0
I have written discussion board software. I made it so that a user can modify their posting. Other users can see that it was modified and can view the older versions if they wish. So you can change your viewpoint, but anybody that clicks on the little "History" link can see what you said originally.
Keeps everybody happy.
Microsoft is the 72nd largest company in America and the 175th largest company in the world.
I feel your pain.
:)
My TiVo has way too many episodes of Oprah, Yoga Zone, and E! True Hollywood Stories taking up space.
Ah, the joys of marriage.
Hence, I refuse to use wisenut.
I saw it also. I was driving on 490 in Rochester, NY, when I saw a yellow-orange streak to the south about 10-15 degrees above the horizon. I dismissed the sighting as a very strange reflection or my imagination because I saw it out of the corner of my eye and couldn't be sure what I saw. But now I know what it was... cool.
I think it is very interesting to note that of the top 40 supercomputers, there are seven with less than 400 processors and every single one of them is located outside the United States (six in Japan, one in France).
Starting around 6th grade, kids that don't want to be in school should be allowed to leave so that those who want to be there won't be held back. If a student is a disruption to the learning environment, kick 'em out. If the losers and idiots weren't in the schools, they (the schools) would be great.
We all know Americans can teach... we have some of the best Universities in the world. It is just that after High School all the losers are weeded out. Weed 'em out earlier is what I think we should do.
If not, maybe be call them kibobot, mebobot, and gibobot. You don't wanna confuse people, right?
h ttp://developer.redhat.com/certification/cert-repo rt.php3?mod_redhat_version=6.0
While we're at it, lets make a byte equal 10 bits, not 8. That is so confusing.